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082 1 _a770.92 SAM
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245 1 0 _aSamaras :
_bthe photographs of Lucas Samaras
_c/ Essay by Ben Lifson
260 _aNew York
_b: An Aperture Book
_c, 1987
300 _a183 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 26 cm
520 _aPhotographer, painter, sculptor, Lucas Samaras is one of the most influential and provocative artists of our time. Once again available to readers, this long out-of-print volume presents a thorough compilation of Samara's photographic work, beginning with his earliest "Auto-Polaroids" This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo-artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium. Using Polaroid materials, large - sometimes life-sized--formats, manipulated imagery, and composites, Samaras helped forge a vocabulary employed by artists and photographers throughout the eighties. In his most profound achievement, he adopted one of photography's basic genres - portraiture - and used it as a basis for an inquiry into the self, which remains unmatched in its intensity and boundless in its ramifications.
546 _aEnglish
600 1 4 _aSamaras, Lucas
_d(1936-)
650 4 _aPhotography, artistic
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